User blog comment:Flia/Canon material/@comment-1512913-20111209194426/@comment-775152-20111209202441

1: Enzo doesn't need to be in the game to be in the manga. He could easily be at home, hiding under his bed when 3 happened. By your logic, DMC 1 and 2 are non-canon because Lady isn't in them. 2: Same reasoning as above. We're missing Volume 3, so for all we know Alice's story gets wrapped up and she is sent home to her parents. Just because a character is in one installment doesn't mean they have to be in the second. 3: Without quotes I don't really understand what you mean by this. It doesn't mean it's not-canon, it can just mean Dante is explaining the same thing to different people. (It's not like Enzo is going to relay Dante's message to the demons.) 4. We're not told when Arkham kills his wife; if it was 10, 5, 3, or even just 1 year before the game. We're missing Volume 3, which was supposed to detail Lady's history. For all we know, Arkham kills his wife in Volume 3. We just don't have enough information to say. 5. Manga and games say Sparda "Disappeared." 6. Dante changes his hairstyle between games, too. 7. Just because he sees a picture of her once doesn't mean he'll recognize her a year later. 8. Really? I thought he was pretty nuts. 9. There is no White Rabbit in the game because he is killed and/or destroyed in the Manga. You can't kill someone twice... 10. There is no Jester in the manga. Flia and I have both been through our copies and we can't find a single panel with him in it. There is a character dubbed "Mad Hatter" by the community. Perhaps you're thinking of him? But he is a separate character, not Jester. 11. Arkham is not specifically stated to be a demon, he just has vast knowledge of the occult. 12. Although it's a presumption, Dante changing forms is most likely his Majin form, which only appears in DMC2, and only when he's close to death. That doesn't mean he has control over his DT, just that it "happens" when he's in extreme distress. 13. Dante actually refused to name the Sin. It was Vergil who appeared and named it. Dante didn't even know what the Sin's purpose was, so even if he had given it a name, 14. Sorry, can't find the quote again. In the transcript I'm reading, it sounds like Vergil already knows Dante has half the amulet. He just says "Give that to me." Maybe he underestimated Dante in the manga, and that's why he gave it back. No reason to throw the whole thing out because of a miscalculation on Vergil's part.

I think you're confusing the manga with the comic. The DMC3 manga is a prologue to DMC3, while the DMC comic is a retelling of DMC1. The comic is most definitely non-canon because it attempts to re-write the events of the game, but because the manga happens at a different point in the timeline, it isn't necessarily non-canon. I cannot find anything in the manga that can't be reasonably explained away by the missing volume or the passage of time.